"Pandora is one of Gluster's top five deployments and offers a modern data center solution that provides flexibility, seamless growth, with 'pay as you grow' scalability," says Jack O'Brien, VP of marketing at Gluster.

Oracle releases their virtualization product, VirtualBox 4.0, which is available for both enterprise and home use.

Avian 0.4 is a portable virtual machine (VM) that utilizes subsets of Java's features.

libguestfs 1.8.0, a library and tool set for virtual machine (VM) disk image management.

New partnership increases the cross-cloud compatibility of both companies.

“Our partners bring users the operating system, Amazon EC2 and OpenStack, as well as traditional hosted and in-house servers give users a platform to run that operating system, and Puppet with MCollective1.0 gives them ease of use and adds a layer of functionality that greatly improve the productivity of both the platform and the user.” Luke Kanies

"For the FreeBSD community as a whole, I think it comes down to the fact that Amazon Web Services is the market leader -- other clouds each have their own advantages, but EC2 is the default first place to look." -- Colin Percival

The Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2011 is seeking speakers. Potential speakers have until January 9, 2011 to submit their topic papers for consideration.